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Land Capitalization, Public Space, and the Redpath Family Home, 1837-1861 Roderick Macleod Document generated on 09/25/2021 8:45 a.m. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Revue de la Société historique du Canada The Road to Terrace Bank: Land Capitalization, Public Space, and the Redpath Family Home, 1837-1861 Roderick Macleod Volume 14, Number 1, 2003 Article abstract The efforts of nineteenth-century Montreal land developer John Redpath to URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/010324ar subdivide his country estate into residential lots for the city's rising middle DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/010324ar class were marked by a shrewd sense of marketing and a keen understanding of the political climate – but they were also strongly determined by the Redpath See table of contents family's need for status and comfort. Both qualities were provided by Terrace Bank, the house at the centre of the estate, and both would only increase with the creation of a middle-class suburb around it on the slopes of Mount Royal. Publisher(s) As a result, the Redpath family home, and the additional homes built nearby for members of the extended Redpath family, influenced all stages of the The Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada planning and subdivision process, which met with great success over the course of the 1840s. In its use of personal correspondence, notarial documents, ISSN plans, the census, and cemetery records, this paper brings together elements of city planning, political and social history, and family history in order to 0847-4478 (print) provide a nuanced picture of how the nineteenth-century built environment 1712-6274 (digital) was shaped and how we should read pubic space. Explore this journal Cite this article Macleod, R. (2003). The Road to Terrace Bank: Land Capitalization, Public Space, and the Redpath Family Home, 1837-1861. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 14(1), 165–192. https://doi.org/10.7202/010324ar Tous droits réservés © The Canadian Historical Association/La Société This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit historique du Canada, 2003 (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ chajournal2003.qxd 2/02/05 14:05 Page 165 The Road to Terrace Bank: Land Capitalization, Public Space, and the Redpath Family Home, 1837-1861 RODERICK MACLEOD n the summer of 1837,1 John Redpath and Jane Drummond, their many chil- Idren, and five servants, took the road up the southern flank of Mount Royal, northwest of Montreal, to what was to be their home for the next quarter- century.2 This was an unprecedented step. Until that time, despite much middle- class idealization of the countryside as a moral place,3 a Montreal businessman on the crest of his career would have seen a farmhouse located some miles from the city as a highly impractical place to live year round. The side of the moun- tain was, moreover, associated with retired gentlemen.4 But Redpath had no intention of becoming merely an amateur farmer along the lines of James McGill and other fur traders whose former homes dotted the mountainside. His own economic star was still very much rising, and he and Jane had every expec- tation (fulfilled, as things turned out) of having many more children. The move was an act of ambition. To live high above the city, away from its clutter and noise, in a spot with clean air, rolling grounds, and a beautiful view, had always 1 I would like to thank Brian Young of McGill University, not only for directing the doctoral the- sis on which much of this article is based, but for subsequently employing me to do research at the Mount Royal Cemetery, some of which I have also made use of here. Thanks also to Myriam Cloutier of the Mount Royal Cemetery, François Cartier of the McCord Museum Archives, and James Armour of the Church of St Andrew and St Paul. I am grateful to Bradley Cross of St. Thomas University for his comments on an earlier version of this paper. 2 McCord Museum Archives (hereafter MMA), PO85-B/6, 20147, Letter Book: Letter to Joseph Classen, August 1837. The Redpaths had five servants in 1842, according to that year’s census. 3 For a discussion of the nineteenth-century “rural idyll,” see Leondore Davidoff, Jean L’Esperance, and Howard Newby, “Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society,” in Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley (eds), The Rights and Wrongs of Women (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976): 146-151. 4 The exception to this trend was the McCord family, who had begun to build their own perma- nent home, Temple Grove, higher up the mountainside and further west, in the summer of 1837. Somewhat younger than Redpath, John Samuel McCord was hardly a retired gentleman; even so, he was a judge, and the scion of a family with much deeper roots in Canada than John Redpath. See Pamel Miller and Brian Young, “Private, Family and Community Life” in Miller (ed), The McCord Family: A Passionate Vision (Montreal: The McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1992). 165 chajournal2003.qxd 2/02/05 14:05 Page 166 JOURNAL OF THE CHA 2003 REVUE DE LA S.H.C. been a mark of social and economic achievement. For the Redpaths, and for the ranks of the city’s rising middle class who followed them up there, it would also be an important means of acquiring status. The process of creating subur- ban space was largely one of commodifying the image of country living. John Redpath proved a master at selling a vision of suburban life to families eager for a way both to invest recently-acquired capital and to escape urban conges- tion. The Redpath family benefitted from this vision, and from the consequent suburbanization of the mountainside, as it meant a considerable improvement in the value of their home. It also confirmed their own position as members of the city’s bourgeoisie – to say nothing of their role as pioneers within this emerging suburban community. Symbolic of the Redpaths’ achievement was the replacement of the farmhouse in 1861 with a grand Victorian mansion, Terrace Bank, which would sit at the head of a long driveway surrounded by trees and gardens like a country estate. At the same time, however, it would remain intimately connected to the city, which was in the process of rising up to meet it. The farm, as purchased in November 1836, was primarily a piece of real estate.5 Redpath dedicated much of his energy over the subsequent decade- and-a-half to subdividing it, at substantial profit. As such, his endeavours serve as an excellent case study of land capitalization against a backdrop of a chang- ing economy – on a par with many real estate ventures on the outskirts of Montreal, a number of which have been well-documented.6 The notion of land capitalism as outlined by Paul-André Linteau and Jean-Claude Robert is very useful to an understanding of the transformation of the nineteenth-century built environment.7 The act of subdivision was a process of capitalizing land, both in terms of making a profit that was out of proportion to its traditional use, and in terms of creating urban space out of farmland. Equally capitalist was the use of marketing strategies to create a need, directed at a group of people who were ripe to pursue such a need. In this respect, if only by degree, nineteenth-cen- tury real estate ventures (to say nothing of subsequent suburban schemes) 5 Archives Nationales du Québec à Montréal (hereafter ANQ-M), Thomas Bedouin #5012, 4 November 1836. 6 For the development of the mountainside, see my “Salubrious Settings and Fortunate Families: The Making of Montreal’s Golden Square Mile, 1840-1895” (Ph.D. diss., McGill University, 1997); see also Paul-André Linteau, Maisonneuve, ou Comment de promoteurs fabriquent une ville, 1883-1918 (Montreal: Boréal Express, 1981); Robert Lewis, Manufacturing Montreal: the Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); Kathleen Lord, “Days and Nights: Class, Gender, and Society on Notre Dame Street in Saint-Henri, 1875-1905” (Ph.D. diss., McGill University, 2000); Walter Van Nus, “The Role of Suburban Government in the City Building Process: the Case of Notre Dame de Grace, 1876-1910,” Urban History Review, XIII (October 1984). 7 Linteau and Robert, “Propriété foncière et société à Montréal.” Revue d’histoire de l’amérique française: 28,1 (juin 1984). 166 chajournal2003.qxd 2/02/05 14:05 Page 167 THE ROAD TO TERRACE BANK differed from earlier, more leisurely projects.8 Historians of cities are often preoccupied with aesthetics, and overlook the significance of capitalism as a motor of physical change – except as the force behind industrialization and, consequently, wretched social conditions.9 The bourgeois exodus from the city centre, for example, did not simply occur because a class of people with money wished to escape soot and congestion; rather, it was part of a vision that had to be sold as painstakingly as the products of any factory. One of the aims of this paper, therefore, is to emphasize the crucial link between aesthetics and capi- talism in creating an urban environment. The other important link to be made here is the one between an environ- ment and the people that built and inhabited it.
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